No enmity with the Taliban, says Imran Khan's party

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, has told newly elected lawmakers that Pakistan has no other option apart from negotiating with the Taliban in the interest of peace. The Express Tribune quoted Nawaz, as saying that the Taliban ...

Pakistan's presumptive prime minister Nawaz Sharif called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army. Nawaz Sharif said "terrorism" was ...

Prime minister-designate Nawaz Sharif, known for being soft towards militant groups, on Monday said the Pakistani Taliban's offer of talks should be taken seriously because the problem of militancy cannot be solved through the use of power and bullets. Addressing newly elected parliamentarians and legislators of his Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz party at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal hall in Lahore, Sharif stressed the need to respond to the Taliban's offer. "Guns and bullets are no solution to problems.

To talk or not to talk with the Taliban may be the most pressing matter of all, writes Le Monde's correspondent from Islamabad. Taliban insurrection, energy crisis... Nawaz Sharif will quickly be put to the test - (Radio Pakistan - Worldcrunch) By ...

A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official has said. 'The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access ...

A hardline cleric often described as the "father of the Taliban" today claimed he had received a message from Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif to help in efforts to begin a dialogue with militants. Maulana Samiul Haq, who heads the radical ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped the son of a former Pakistani prime minister on Thursday as a letter from the leader of the Pakistani Taliban revealed plans for suicide bomb attacks on election day. Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, ...

Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that a "Taliban supported government" has come into power after "strange elections".

The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has said it would not rule out a ceasefire if Pakistan's new government "shows seriousness" about its offer of holding a dialogue.